With hooved feet and a winged body, the "massive 2,700-year-old" statue was said to depict an "Assyrian Deity that was excavated in Iraq" in 2023. The winged bull figure is lamassu, a likeness ...

IS, also known as Isis or Daesh in Arabic, became notorious for taking over huge swathes of Syria and Iraq and meting out ... a reconnaissance exercise near a mosque and Islamic bookstore on ...

The Taliban's morality police in Afghanistan are enforcing strict Islamic laws, detaining men for hairstyles and missed prayers, according to a U.N. report. These laws, implemented six months ago ...

The Taliban morality police in Afghanistan have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles and others for missing prayers at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday ...

This is the first time long-range surface-to-surface missiles have been possessed by a militia in Iraq allied with Iran. It is believed that two other types of missiles, Quds 351 cruise and Jamal ...

Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs (Awqaf), represented by the Mosques Department, has inaugurated a grand mosque in the Al Maarad area, with a capacity to accommodate ...

Iraq is bringing increasing numbers of its citizens ... them and also destroyed the city's nearly 850-year-old al-Nuri mosque (pictured)Image: Reuters/E. De Castro By 2019, the IS group had ...

OPEC member Iraq has awarded Phase 1 of the development of Akkas gas field to the US-based Schlumberger Company, media reports said on Thursday. The cabinet agreed on an “urgent” investment plan to ...

Iraq on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with US energy firm GE Vernova to produce 24,000 megawatts of electricity, the government said, during a visit by an American trade delegation.

The Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib, more commonly known as the Lakemba Mosque, has submitted a formal proposal to the Canterbury-Bankstown Council to install four external loudspeakers to its minaret ...

“American Sniper,” Clint Eastwood’s film about U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his 160 confirmed “kills” across his four tours of duty in Iraq, stands as the most profitable war movie ever mad ...